Analysis sensitivity calculation in an ensemble Kalman filter

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1842-1851

  Liu, Junjie ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^b   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^b   Cardinali, Carla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross validation; EnKF; Observational quality control

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION PROCEDURE; CROSS-VALIDATION; DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; ENKF; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GEOMETRICAL INTERPRETATION; GLOBAL MODELS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVATIONAL QUALITY CONTROL; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; VARIABLE MODEL;

CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRACE ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA INTERPRETATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350675099     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.511     Document Type: Article

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